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according to question. on nato promises extra troops for the border between serbia and consulate poing province outbreaks of a controversial export. start to delve into the world of scientific research and breakthroughs in a suspicion of technology that. hello and welcome to technology update are you tired of paying those overblown electric bills at the end of each month this could be the answer you've been waiting for a lot of the energy and with that a lot of the harder in cash gets burned out by crummy old incandescent light bulbs but what if i could get you a lot more light and waste way less wattage in the process and up and coming

russian companies just open a huge new production facility to help make that energy efficient dream a reality. doesn't meet my sleazy sales pitch the high tech brainchild of a trio of russian scientists was born abroad and is now returned to russia to cover it in on a shiny new factory at the outskirts of st petersburg aside from being a happy homecoming the l.e.d. assembly line launches a big step in russia's attempts to modernize its economy and go green at the same time. the capacity to fiction throughput is the highest or inodes of business today in russia countries and in eastern europe we can produce today thirty million. go month. it's the. l.e.d. is the latest in a long line russians begin and. made some of the first strides in constructing

incandescent lamps in the eighteen seventy s using carbon filaments renowned american inventor thomas edison introduced improved elements and extended relatively short life of electric bulbs first to forty then to over one thousand hours by the early twentieth century and tungsten filament light bulbs still in use today were already emerging in lamps appeared in the thirty's college and lamps at the end of the one nine hundred fifty s. and high pressure sodium street lighting in the sixty's compact fluorescents or c.f.l. were pioneered in the seventy's and are still a popular option as we move towards energy efficiency gallium nitride light emitting diodes may be seen in the ninety's with improvements in technology since then showing incredible flexibility and efficiency quite possibly making the lighting of the future. it was that break you trade it brought out the big shots the octagon factory opening the governor of st petersburg clearly understood the positive impact of having the company on her and she was joined by top level

dignitaries and investors from moscow and beyond it's a project that state high tech corporation is happy to throw its weight behind. this is one hundred percent. from the ground up on the fundamental level we can thank for his scientific contribution he won the nobel prize for his research in the field of hatred. of the light emitting diodes that are being produced here. in fact there is one st petersburg academy at the root of all of this do you know physical technical institute it's been a world class center for fundamental physics in cutting edge technology since the days of its founder of. not only did he in the faculty of delimit grad fiz tech that would soon. there is need to train the ranks of the soviet union's top nuclear scientists they also begin work on semiconductors that underpins virtually all modern electronics. was one of the institute's bright stars in the field of semiconductor physics and

a forefather of today's elite d.'s. conduct along to meeting diets were developed as early as nine hundred twenty s. russian scientist a leg loss of experimented with silicon called by. the end of the nine hundred sixty s. we saw the appearance of more d.s. based on a three eighty five semiconductor hit restrictions that was in late one nine hundred sixty s. and early one nine hundred seventy s. it was acknowledging implemented these facilities is the next generation know how to develop students and what we see here demonstrates how fast this area is changing both in scientific and technological terms and also in terms of the top rate equipments are operating here. on top managers and the flood is slow growth and how it's a coach for all of you out of students in the same mid ninety's graduate class and while the op electronics department your fee institute gave them the best of foundations they were completing their studies at

a time of difficult transition for the russian scientific community. at the beginning of the nineteen nineties our economy faces a dramatic up evil due to disastrous reforms implemented by the government i mean they were carried out in a callous way and as a result russian science found itself in a difficult situation we could not have survived can also maintained our scientific potential without international collaboration. to guns founders were part of a global generation of innovative entrepreneurs seeking elusive start of conditions in an era of uncertainty in fact much of the developed world was suffering in economic identity crisis in the late twentieth century. just in the collapsing socialist. german city of dortmund where the russian innovators eventually founder integrator was no exception. the world is full of rusting old industrial space fallen by the wayside in the constant shift of the global economy the challenge on

everyone's minds is to rethink and rebuild these spaces to compete in the high tech twenty first century. these challenges were particularly acute indorsement a city at the heart of the once mighty mill ojukwu complex in europe's largest economy these pictures are from the final days of phoenix west a massive plant operated by the steel giant crude that along with other heavy industry installations was the lifeblood of deceit is well established working class long before the mill was shuttered for good in one thousand nine hundred eight the economic outlook indoors was dark. from the crisis a lot of working places have. had to take a decision here what to do for the future what to do next what comes off the street . and decided to focus on high technology. that was the

decision and the result of these decisions you can see here so. which is one of the one of the. by the way as. companies. would soon site is an impressive new facility a far cry from the dreary dortmund of years past with doors opened in april two thousand and five. factories set up as a competent center for micro and nanotechnology startups with offices laboratory and clean room infrastructure for small companies trying to take technology from ideas to products the facility combines funny from the city state and european union now hosting around twenty companies with over one hundred employees. including many from russia so really what you see here on a white board is basically the essence of eight years of experience well regarded with the russian friends russia not it's not us. you go the route in technology

that needs to have access to build the markets opus leaders say get in between and the moment this rush my two teams find the perfect infrastructure in order to do the conversion of that technology into products where is the money to make a reality come from well basically it needs investors right but you know to get them this infrastructure in a high tech start up team to make a predictable conversion you have a clear timeframe of truth a few years in order to convert technology to products and prepare the company in order to approach global markets that's exactly the kind of preparation. and his classmates turned business partners it off to god we're looking for when they came to dortmund and the incubator to help them take top quality off electronic technology to the market. up the gun originally was founded by. two my friends and classmates from university and myself and later on dirk meyer he joined us and he helped to move up the gun here to door companies to sell it is. the company made in

creation was he endorsement and through this time to develop the main principles and basically came to the final product we created that and we can conclude a we are between ten top companies on the level of performance so what exactly was it that opera guy needed to get there early the business off the ground insured equipment limiting diodes don't grow on trees they grow in every taxi or reactors are able to read top quality equipment in affordable rates and the m.s.t. factory in jordan the octagon team would set about generating a top quality sample it made them an attractive investment to set up a full scale production here's how it's done. production starts with a thin model crystal lean sapphire wafer in a process known as epitaphs you'll grow placed inside a special chamber the wafer is bombarded with various gases to form a multi-layered structure under specific pressure and temperature conditions the

gases cause chemical reactions leaving layers of gallium nitride indium nitride and aluminum nitride on the way for surface each wafer will produce up to thousands of l.e.d.s. so a laser edging process cards out the individual chips contacts are then affixed to each one of the tiny l.e.d. chips are now ready to be placed inside the casement connected with gold wire the contacts and covered with a foster layer to convert blue to white light negative in positive charge currents meet in the active layer of the diode releasing photons in the form of visible light and. not acknowledging energy efficiency i both like really. recovering the innovation technologies and look to russia and we talked to several groups of friends several financial groups and on the same group i'm michael crocker of they will like much faster than others they realize the potential of the

company and they simply want it now main expertise and main core. inside these it protection lives we found the way that we can grow material with the least dislike asians and defects to even world leaders meaning that we can build chips with a more cost efficient technology delivering the same level of performance we are in a transition phase from pilot minutes actually who have to germany. trying to establish and today in russia begun is now busy calibrating their production lines in st petersburg to perfectly recreate the recipe day nailed down in dortmund and see t.v.'s process even on the prototype scale and now the expectations are far higher comes out of these machines is going not to showcase for potential investors but to meet the lighting needs of clients so if all goes to plan what advantages can there l.e.d.s. offer for an equivalent amount of light octagon projects its. last c.f.

l's nearly ten fold and incandescents by fifty times meanwhile the l.e.d.s. will cut in half the energy usage of most c.f. els and usefully ten times less like tricity then old school bulbs mercury pollution is a potentially serious problem with energy saving c.f.l. l.e.d.s. avoid that toxic threat elegies completely. environmentally safe in russia read the full next year from virginia referrals to have a ban four hundred watt incandescent bulbs like other people with well you're a cool fornia but in russia there is no such high penetration of the so we see that in terms of the market size. direct replacement of incandescent bulbs to early to it's bigger. so that's why in this sense we expect russian market to grow even faster than we think now we see the growth of the market for thirty three like in russia from seventy to one hundred percent

a year and we expect the standard to continue. to go and doesn't have to look too far for customers as the city of st petersburg is undergoing an l.e.d. overhaul. our company is in charge of maintaining some one hundred eighty thousand lighting elements around the city that's a huge market for the new. currently power consumption total several megawatts the opening of a major production plant that will produce the ladies and hopefully lights two will be a boost for simply does the work you know initially we intend to use the ladies to eliminate the city's gardens and pocks there's also an ambitious new miscible construction plan in the pipeline with new streets to be designed and built in two thousand and twelve twenty thirteen. so after we've done the parks we'll extend the replacement program to residential districts and then move on to revamp the lighting for major transport entrees in the city as well as the embankments and the like a science beyond their hometown object dawn is breaking out to the far away russian

republic of straddling the arctic circle in an icy northern siberia energy efficiency is more than a slogan they're producing electricity and much of the region is expensive and heavily subsidized they also need new technology built to withstand their long brutal winter. what have you guys done to make the levy still work in temperature conditions like we have a lot of parts of russia it was one of the chatter just makes me mad because when we came to this market in order to prevent the great it. just understood russia is a very cold country and normally in russia there is a standard that you need minus sixty degree acquiring for sure using the new ice so you know. it developed a lot of special cost effective for the client. and this is a prototype here what's different about it i can't tell with the naked eye but tell me a little bit about the technology i would say that right now you can buy minus sixty

degree. extremely expensive so it's not like a commodity product in the market what. those high end products come with it's new combinations. quite the way it's. design is definitely a big part of the heavily competitive l.e.d. gave since other companies outside of russia have already been on the market for years to go on has to show the ability to meet customer specific demands like to temperature standards and it's all about better lighting solutions ever lower costs definitely it's like more economical light you pay less after you get your payback period today it's still quite high from two to five six years. but in four years look like. a company like it means that the troops accessible for. population are now that kind of mass scale consumer base is

a bit beyond our grasp even if you think this land for street industrial lighting would be great for your garage you might balk when you saw the three hundred dollars price tag so well up the gun works on driving down the cost of chip production somebody needs to tackle the issue of bold design before i'm sold on switching over to. the fortunately the creative minds that are going to have studios are already on the case my scales his design squad is constantly coming up with new ways to merge high tech function with the fashionable for their blueprints or behind a futuristic prototype octagon screw in l e d. y. was the mean challenge that you guys had to overcome in making these lines obviously energy technologies question but it's still got some issues to solve the biggest one ease the problem of couldn't own because it produces a lot of heat so we have to design a very good. radiator is that what this thing is right here yeah it's like.

the theme we just came out for the market three years ago and just a standard solution but we like to change it and make it more effective and we got inspired by nature because if you look at some of the stuff like mushrooms for example there they just late because of the way of an up and go in and we create the same the same similar stuff here and it will help us to extend capacity and space around and. to make the cooling process more effective from a purely design perspective from an artistic perspective. do you like working with bobs that need a radiator this clunky like when i look at this i see mostly radiator very little gold and you don't get light maybe as much coming down this direction are you looking at ways to completely redo l.e.d. lighting so that you don't have to have such

a bulky radiator industry itself is very rapidly changing day by day i think maybe even after one year we will have another design beefed up to live different look so what then is the future of this kind of design a look like mentioned deeds self get in small and small and for example they can technology which is called slide engine and physically it's a very very tiny ensley thin and and they implement in there but not you know the common you could trade any shape whatever you want really looking for but some of the designs may seem a bit frivolous a first glimpse but we're talking about a far more flexible lighting future where we can. ditch traditional shapes in the name of variety and a bit of color to just about anything and replace old school single function buttons with tiny l.e.d. screens multiplying the devices possibilities another arena for l.e.d.s. allocation is in the automobile lighting and they will be

a hybrid by russian billionaire this month is literally hoping to reinvent the wheel set for full scale production sometime in two thousand and twelve the economy cars are trimmed with all the latest gadgets for the urban commuter could have said next in group backs both octagon in a new car company so it's no wonder he understood the advantages of that product from st peter's to which is the first of all the use of lights in the. help system pad consumption implanted traditional labs and secondly no less important than a standard lifespan basically running as long as you. want it also has the use of l e d's allow this to simplify because upticks lowering costs by saving in high precision features. to move the o. has company here as the world's leading luxury sports car makers head seen the light about believe the lamps in recent years as well as the bang for the buck gets better you can expect to encounter more l.e.d.s. on the road. as you can see l.e.d.

technology is finding applications everywhere these days even letting you light up your own living room but it's just the tip of the op electronics iceberg back in the dorm an incubator there are more innovations on the way from the same team of st petersburg scientists upstairs from octagons launching pad m.s.t. factory i don't offices of the russian companies you know while their classmates and former colleagues find their niche in the well known l.e.d. industry in a human being even deeper into their scientific work on semiconductor physics they've assembled an international team to become one of the world's leaders in laser diode technology in jordan they've set up a complete production cycle beginning here with molecular beam effort taxi in. finishing with a range of packaged products their output includes wafers laser chips and fiber coupled laser modules for use in industrial medical and communications technology. in two thousand and three a team of eight young researchers from the physical technical university where we

worked in the laboratory of the nobel laureates to wrestle fear of go to a unique opportunity to set up a private company here in germany we managed to secure significant funds from investors and set up this semiconductor factory now we are a successful company which among other applications produces millions of chips for the medical sector chips that help save human lives but also our enterprises some ongoing research to create a unique to be used in the industry of optical computer interconnections. certainly russia is a different place now with establishment of the responder corp. we've submitted a project to roost with a proposal to set up production facilities back home. effect through that from a make chips using our technology which will be something unique for russia. the technology to live should says referring to is called quantum dot lasers and arena where his company is among the global elite quantum dots are confined

semiconductor you know crystals with unique electronic an optical properties first discovered in the one nine hundred eighty s. by russian physicist i see quantum dots for great advantages in laser applications other semiconductor heteros structures like quantum wells are harder to control for lasers quantum dot lasers require less current for more input and has tested them extremely low relative noise these properties have long been theorized their benefits are on the verge of realisation. on the basis of a company's latest invention will be able to make a chip that will transmit many channels through its. move than one hundred gigabits per second. it will help replace the boat key bunches of cables that you see everywhere today with just a few fibers also there we can cause energy consumption by several dozen times and

the maintenance costs many hundred times so it. think of it this way all the data coming out of your computer gets on a highway to davy options are basically either building a new road here another cable or waiting in traffic with the other data. home laser proposes adding lanes to the same highway sending information on the same fiber using several different non-interfering wavelengths add to that the fact that each plane is flying at speed and you see what kind of breakthrough we're talking about multiply that by the scale of. the firm white google facebook or amazon and you're redefining the world of cloud computing. one hundred data centers being set up every year around the world these are enormous factories for data processing consuming a huge amount of energy. in two thousand and six the data processing industry two percent of electric energy production in the united states that's a huge number so expect to revolutionize the optical interconnects industry in the

near future with research and development and production sites and generally the united states and russia. so obviously the right conditions for a top russian optoelectronics technologies to develop have been set up in. two competitive firms with cutting edge projects already on the market and possibly more on the way they build successful innovative business abroad and now want to bring them home what's the magic formula factory is built on a model that's work in high tech development and production clusters all over the world from the famous silicon valley to taiwan in southeast asia so we're. the time come to build up this kind of center in russia the resoundingly answer from moscow right now that's see idea at the heart of the skolkovo project an international city of science and technology set to fan out over the next decade in all directions from this spot just outside of moscow so the next time technology update

brings you a high tech success story they might just be born and raised right here in till then enjoy the ride. i hope that school confident he's going to cover this park to creek thank you for groups with a dieter's to give them kind of in kuwait the conditions like we got it and i missed the factory but i discussed with you when we were there and set up a small manufacturing in order to develop yourself a sample of your prototype and get custom traction and this book has to be done in russia immediately otherwise we would never you know cross the bridge between science and manufacturing and because between science and avoiding manufacturing there is a huge gap there is a prototype development and scientist i myself am a scientist they very often they don't understand how huge is this gap.

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